Rejang language

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Rejang
Spoken in:	Southwestern Sumatra, Indonesia.
Total speakers:	Up to 1 million.
Language family:	Austronesian Malayo-Polynesian Rejang
Language codes
ISO 639-1:	none
ISO 639-2:	`map`
ISO 639-3:	`rej`
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Rejang is spoken by the Rejang people in southwestern Sumatra, Indonesia. It is a Malayo-Polynesian language but has not been further classified. It has five major dialects. The language is quite different from the similarly named language group Rejang-Baram which is spoken on the island of Borneo in Sarawak and Kalimantan.

It is estimated that there are up to a million Rejang speakers.^[1]

[edit] Notes

^ Wurm, Stephen A. and Hattori, Shirô (eds.) (1981) Language Atlas of the Pacific Area Australian Academy of the Humanities in collaboration with the Japan Academy, Canberra, ISBN 0-85883-239-9

[edit] References

McGinn, Richard (1999) "The Position of Rejang In Relation to Malay and the 'Ablaut' Languages of Northwest Borneo" in Zeitoun, Elizabeth and Paul Jen-kuei Li, eds., Selected Papers from the Eighth International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics Symposium Series of Linguistics, Academia Sinica, Number 1, Taipei, Taiwan, ISBN 957-671-632-2;
Blust, Robert A. (1981) "The reconstruction of Proto-Malayo-Javanic: an appreciation" Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 137(4): pp. 456-469;